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Just six female investors have claimed spots on this year’s Midas List, up from five women a year ago. The list also has two female newcomers, Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures, and Ann Miura-Ko, cofounder and partner at Floodgate Fund.

Thor: Ragnarok arrives in American movie theaters on Friday and early reviews point to a blockbuster.

As with many movies, it was earlier released internationally. Fans who got an early viewing give the $180 million budgeted movie a stellar 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And 94% of Google moviegoers like it.

This week, Qualcomm officially jumped into the server chip market with the launch of its Centriq 2400 SoC (System on a Chip) in a server market that has seen a steady stream of product launches from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel. Though Qualcomm announced Centriq some time ago, this launch represents a significant shift in the read »

While Walmart is the holiday sales king, Amazon Black Friday and Best Buy Black Friday provide arguably its greatest competition – and with good reason. Best Buy has the best HDTV and Galaxy smartphone deals of any retailer while Amazon has a wider product selection and killer deals on its own Echo, Kindle and Fire TV devices. It’s a serious read »

No industry has experienced the disruption of digital transformation more than retail. Amazon.com has upended virtually every segment of this venerable industry, well beyond the bookstores that constituted the online retailer’s original target.

The luxury segment of the retail business is by no means immune. Furthermore, it has read »

Amazon.com has built a formidable position in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2), and it is hoping to extend that position to applications that benefit from acceleration using GPUs and FPGAs. FPGAs are relatively difficult to program, and the cloud leader is laying the foundation to read »

For nearly 20 years, my family has practiced a Thanksgiving Day ritual of playing the latest incarnation of Electronic Arts’ popular Madden Football series. I’ve always been impressed with new versions of Madden Football—due to the visual complexity of the actual game of football, Madden always pushes console hardware to its read »

2018 promises to be an interesting year for the smart home and security industry. We’ll undoubtedly see many new products and solutions designed make our lives easier and more productive, so that we can focus on the things that matter to us most. After all, isn’t that the goal of a winning consumer technology product?

2017 was an exciting year for fans and adopters of AI. As we enter 2018, I wanted to take a look at what lies ahead. One thing is certain: we’ve barely just begun on this journey and there will be great successes and monumental failures in the year to come. Before I dive into the dangerous waters of predictions, it might be helpful to set the read »

Google just announced significant enhancements to its machine learning services (MLaaS), attempting to close the significant competitive gap that Microsoft has enjoyed, in my opinion, for the last year or so. Not to be left out, Amazon.com AWS announced the company’s own new MLaaS tools and services at AWS Re:Invent last November, trying to read »

As expected, last week’s CES was an expansive affair, with 3,900 exhibitors presenting interesting (and more than a few head-scratching) products and solutions across 240,000 square feet of floor space at the Las Vegas Convention and World Trade Center. More than 184,000 attendees visited this year’s show (a CES record), and while a several hour read »